| Peace & Justice at First-Plymouth in Lincoln |
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At the Conference Annual Meeting June 5th, 2010, it was announced that Don Tilley and the Peace & Justice Group at First-Plymouth in Lincoln would like to improve their church's effectiveness by inviting other church's to join them. August 4 5:00-6:30 Planning Session Meeting starts at 5:15 at room to be posted. Pick up your food $6.00 at Pilgrim hall at 5:00 if you want to eat and bring it to the designated room. August 6 Plymouth Peace & Justice Committee to co-sponsor (along with others groups) a play-reading program about nuclear weapons. Tentatively scheduled at the Unitarian Church at 7:00 p.m. August 7 Plymouth Peace & Justice Committee to co-sponsor the Hiroshima-Nagasaki lantern float commemoration on August 7 (Sat. evening) at Holmes Lake. We will have a program similar to that we have had before, a mixture of music, poetry and reflection with the culmination being the lantern float when dark in prayer and hope that the atomic bombing of two cities will not be replicated in the bombing of other cities on our planet. We are facing a cross roads now with the negotiation of a new START treaty, the heightening tensions in the middle East, the expansion in the number of nuclear powers, and the development of new forms of nuclear weapons. September 13 5:00-6:30 Planning Session. Meeting starts at 5:15 at room to be posted. Pick up your food $6.00 at Pilgrim hall at 5:00 if you want to eat and bring it to the designated room. September 15 6:30 p.m. “Bill Moyer’s Program about Economic Injustice” The opposite of poverty is not wealth but poverty. Host: Alison Nickolaus October 4 5:00-6:30 Planning Session. Meeting starts at 5:15 at room to be posted. Pick up your food $6.00 at Pilgrim hall at 5:00 if you want to eat and bring it to the designated room. October 20 6:30 p.m. “Oscar Rios “Day of the Dead”” Learn more about the Mexican All Saints Day celebration through stories, music, and food by friends from Mexico. Host: Jeanne Johnson November 1 5:00-6:30 Planning Session. Meeting starts at 5:15 at room to be posted. Pick up your food $6.00 at Pilgrim hall at 5:00 if you want to eat and bring it to the designated room. November 17 6:30 p.m. “Role of Government” State Senator Bill Avery will challenge us by discussing new possible roles for U.S. government – government that works for the people. Also, he will briefly update us with current peace & justice bills in the state legislature. Host: Don Tilley December 6 5:00-6:30 Planning Session. Meeting starts at 5:15 at room to be posted. Pick up your food $6.00 at Pilgrim hall at 5:00 if you want to eat and bring it to the designated room. December 15 6:30 p.m. “Gift of the Magi” Panel of volunteers discuss gifts from volunteering – eg. Teammates, Lincoln Literacy Council Host: Linda Stevenson January 11 5:00-6:30 Planning Session. Meeting starts at 5:15 at room to be posted. Pick up your food $6.00 at Pilgrim hall at 5:00 if you want to eat and bring it to the designated room. January 19 6:30 p.m. “Emmett Till” Discussion of the award winning play written and produced at Lincoln High School about Emmett Till and how it impacted the lives of the participants. Hosts: Chris Maly, Nic Brown, Jeanne Johnson During Jan. 26, Feb. 2,9,16,23, March 2, 16, seven films of Part 2 of the award winning popular documentary films, Eyes on the Prize, will be shown. These films tell the definitive story of the civil rights era from the point of view of the ordinary men and women whose extraordinary actions launched a movement that changed the fabric of American life, and embodied a struggle whose reverberations continue to be felt today. Each starts at 6:30 p.m. January 26, 2011 Film series “Eyes on the Prize” “Two Societies (1965-68)” (Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference help Chicago’s civil rights leaders in their nonviolent struggles…) Host: Jeanne Johnson February 1 5:00-6:30 Planning Session. Meeting starts at 5:15 at room to be posted. Pick up your food $6.00 at Pilgrim hall at 5:00 if you want to eat and bring it to the designated room. February 2 Film series “Eyes on the Prize” “Power! (1966-68) (The call for black power takes various forms across communities in America …) Host: Judye Ruffo February 9 Film series “Eyes on the Prize” “The Promised land” (1967-68) (Martin Luther King stakes out new ground for himself and the rapidly fragmenting movement. One year before his death, he publicly opposes the war in Vietnam….) Host: Judye Ruffo February 16 Film series “Eyes on the Prize” “Ain’t Gonna Shuffle No More” (1964-72) (A call to pride and a renewed push for unity galvanize black America….) Host: Judye Ruffo February 23 Film series “Eyes on the Prize” “A Nation of Law?” (1968-71) (Black activism is increasingly meet with sometimes violent and unethical response from local and federal law enforcement agencies. In Chicago…) Host: Judye Ruffo March 1 5:00-6:30 Planning Session. Meeting starts at 5:15 at room to be posted. Pick up your food $6.00 at Pilgrim hall at 5:00 if you want to eat and bring it to the designated room. March 2 Film series “Eyes on the Prize” “The Keys to the Kingdom” (1974-80) (In the 1970s, antidiscrimination legal rights gained in past decades by the civil rights movement are put to the test …) Host: Steve DeLair March 16 Film series “Eyes on the Prize” “Back to the Movement” (1979-mid 80s) (Power and powerlessness….In Chicago, an unprecedented grassroots movement triumphs…) Host: Steve DeLair April 5 5:00-6:30 Planning Session. Meeting starts at 5:15 at room to be posted. Pick up your food $6.00 at Pilgrim hall at 5:00 if you want to eat and bring it to the designated room. |